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The patience of hope

 By Dora Greenwell, John Greenleaf Whittier

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Full view - Edition: 6 - 1863 - 171 pages - History


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Internet Archive: Details: The patience of hope
Title, The patience of hope. Creator, Greenwell, Dora, 1821-1882. Creator, Making of America Project. Creator, Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 ...
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THE PATIENCE OF HOPE. By DORA. GREENWELL. (gibbùzgs. Foolscap. 8vo,. pp. I:3.) ’And thus it. is. necessary. that. this. Man. also. should have. something ...
ext.sagepub.com/ cgi/ reprint/ 6/ 3/ 113.pdf

JSTOR: The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan
The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan. Thomas R. Trautmann. Karl Sanford Kabelac. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, ...
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I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to me, 'You are my son, today I have begotten you, ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.Page 38
Tennyson timidly, yet impressively, warbles, in mourning the death of his beloved friend: — " 0, yet we trust that, somehow, good "Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; "That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; * Lam.Page 132
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.Page 86
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.Page 118
I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.Page 121
Gilead is mine, and Manasses is mine ; Ephraim also is the strength of my head ; Judah is my law-giver; 8 Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe ; Philistia, be thou glad of me. 9 Who will lead me into the strong city ? who will bring me into Edom?Page 49
Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream; but what am I? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.Page 132
And, thou Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth : and the heavens are the works of thine hands : they shall perish, but thou remainest ; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment ; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed ; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.Page 168
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west ; they shall spoil them of the east together : they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab ; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.Page 119
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.Page 153

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